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I’m about to take this girl for a very hard ride.
Selena is a welcome distraction from trouble at the clubhouse.
The curvy librarian thinks she can back me down.
But I like the challenge.
And I’m about to show her just how wrong she is.
LOGAN
Getting women has always been too easy for me.
It’s nice to have a little difficulty for once.
The busty librarian thinks she’ll turn me down and walk away unscathed.
But her resistance can end in only one way:
With Selena on her knees, begging me for more.
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The Crush
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The SECRET of happiness is FREEDOM. The secret of freedom is COURAGE.
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past as better than what is was and the present worse than it actually is.
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The new heartwarming wartime saga in the Home Fires series, perfect for fans of Rosie Clarke and Annie Groves.
In the midst of World War II, the members of one village WI fight harder than ever to help the war effort . . .
But behind closed doors, each is fighting a more personal battle.
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She never expected to see him again.
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Come back to the homes you always wanted in this collection of ten holiday novellas from your favorite small town romance authors!
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Rose hates her husband and their relationship is dead, not that it ever began. It’s over and she wants a divorce. However, his gambling has handed her straight into the arms of a monster, Jared Cain, the city’s crime lord and all-around dangerous man.
What she doesn’t know is she’s now Jared’s wife.
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Annie made a holiday wish to be reunited with the one who got away.
She should’ve been more specific...
Museum curator Annie Bristow has spent years regretting a marriage proposal she turned down from her college sweetheart. When a fateful ride on a holiday train gives Annie the opportunity to make it right, she wishes for a do-over. She wants to go back and say yes to her one true love. Who better than a twinkly-eyed Mrs. Claus to make it happen? What could possibly go wrong?
I went to a depraved club and came out pregnant by my best friend’s dad.
Some girls have all the luck. They meet their man, get married, and start cranking out babies.
But I’m not like that.
I like things a little different, so I go to the place that satisfies those dark desires: The Cube.
What we do in the club is off-limits and taboo to normal society, but it scratches an itch I have deep inside.
An unconventional princess.
A man sent to protect her at all costs.
Navy SEAL and Special Ops Major Anthony Garrison has secretly had Princess Shayla’s six for the last four years. He’s been her comrade, confidant, and drinking buddy, all while fighting a growing attraction. Watching a*****e guys hit on her as he’s forced to deny his own desires is slowly driving him crazy.
When the princess is captured and held hostage, Anthony blames himself and goes against great odds to save her.
Princess Shayla is held prisoner for months and begins to lose hope of ever being rescued. Her one regret is never having acted on her attraction to her co-pilot and friend. Now she doesn’t know if he’s a captive like her…or even alive.
From USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Lexy Timms, comes a billionaire romance that'll crank up the heat and have you falling in love all over again.
Jamie Connors has given up on finding a man. Despite being smart, pretty, and just slightly overweight, she's a magnet for the kind of guys that don't stay around.
Her sister's wedding is at the foreground of the family's attention. Jamie would be fine with it if her sister wasn't pressuring her to lose weight so she'll fit in the maid of honor dress, her mother would get off her case and her ex-boyfriend wasn't about to become her brother-in-law.
The Sebastians own this city.
Hell, they own the whole world.
All I want is one little piece of it, a corner that I can call my own.
So when my boss runs away to “find herself”, I seize the opportunity and dive head first into the Sebastian’s glamorous universe. It’s everything I’ve ever wanted—fast paced and high stakes—and, even though I don’t fit in, I’m excellent at faking it.
Until I come face to face with the man in charge, Scott Sebastian, the arrogant, playboy heir with the mind of a devil and the body of a god and a mouth I can’t stop thinking about.
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Freya Godwin's muse has gone MIA.
With Freya just hired to redesign the top adult website company in the country, her creativity couldn't have chosen a worse time to disappear. Determined to get her sexy back, Freya puts an ad online, hoping to find the right man to inspire her.
From the Dean of American Erotica, C.K. Ralston:
It is 2012, right at the end of the big economic downturn. The Norgaard family have been forced by the financial crises to relocate abruptly to the west coast from Minnesota. Inga, the stunningly beautiful eighteen-year old daughter of the family finds herself suddenly immersed in the bewildering world of Beverly Hills High School’s social life; cliques, roaming the halls amid the sons and daughters of millionaires, movie stars, societal elites, rock stars’ kids, and other strange, exotic, privileged-from-birth types.
Good teachers are not supposed to have such naughty thoughts about a single dad...
The first time I saw Will Munroe, I had him nailed.
A classic LA guy, handsome and rich and very impressed with himself over both. Not to mention the kind of stockbroker who Bluetooths his deals on the trail my dog and I like. Who does that?
Turns out, the father of my new favorite student. And since drooling is discouraged at parent/teacher conferences, I try not to look him in his steel-gray eyes. Which is how I noticed how hard his chest is under that button-down. And the conspicuous absence of a ring on his finger.
He's a Hollywood heartthrob. She's a liar.
I can have any woman I want.
I want her. Zoe Clark.
With wicked curves, a smart mouth, and unrivaled confidence, Zoe captivates me the moment she rejects me. Amused by her brush-off, I hire her to work on the set of my next film in the exotic Seychelles.
For the next four months, she's not the sassy bartender from Chicago. Instead, she's the intense personal trainer running me through circuit trainings from hell.
Turns out there was a second video from that awful night four years ago. Mine wasn’t the only tape.
Too bad mine wasn’t the worst.
Drew can’t protect me no matter how hard he tries, but the roles are flipped now. I have to help him, but I’m not wired that way. Not anymore. That one night changed me more than anyone knows.
Without her alter-ego Erika Jayne, Erika Girardi says she’d just be “another rich bitch with a plane”—so get ready for the dishy, tell-all memoir from show-stopping performer, model, singer, and beloved star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Erika Jayne.
A female antihero can be mighty hard to resist—and the deliciously evil Ivy Lin is one of the best we’ve read lately. Debut author Susie Yang’s unapologetic protagonist is a Chinese immigrant whose grandmother taught her how to steal when she was little. As a Harvard undergrad, Ivy also became an expert liar, and post graduation, she’s ready to focus her skills on the thing she covets most: handsome Gideon Speyer and his politically connected family’s rich, privileged lifestyle. White Ivy is a tense thriller that literally made us grip our phone with sweaty palms.
Jade Roberts’s love for Talon Steel is the real deal, and she’s more determined than ever to help him come to grips with whatever is haunting him. To that end, she continues her investigation of the Steels…and unknowingly attracts some dangerous foes from their shrouded history.
Daunted by the singular sexual tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house.
But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven, and demanding Fifty Shades. While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront her anger and envy of the women who came before her and make the most important decision of her life.
This Irresistible read features stories of couples turning their deepest fantasies into reality for uninhibited and imaginative sex. You''ll delight in discovering all the exciting erotic possibilities, and ways of getting and staying turned on. It all starts with a little sexting in A.M. Hartnet''s sizzling "Safe for Work" office tryst and Cole Riley''s moving "Same As It Ever Was"
Title:The LayoverFormat:PaperbackProduct dimensions:320 pages, 8.25 X 5.5 X 0.62 inShipping dimensions:320 pages, 8.25 X 5.5 X 0.62 inPublished:15 juin 2021Publisher:Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage:English
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